How many critters

[Baccus]

I had thought that the cull shrimp numbers in the other halves guppy breeding tank where reducing in numbers, I figured well maybe the guppies had finally developed a taste for the shrimp or perhaps the Pakastani loach was getting the hang of nabbing them. I know the Khuli loaches so no interest in the shrimp nor do the Bristlenoses.

But no turns out the perfect place to live and breed is the canister filter, just cleaned it and retrieved probably a couple of hundred shrimp and 1 juvi guppy, and of course a thousand MTS.

In another canister filter on another tank I have found lovely healthy corydoras babies, along with a few billion MTS

[zn30]

Good way to get rid of some MTS however one thinks it might be time to re-engineer your intake strainers and or reduce the flow rate or replace your canister filters to a smaller type.

The Cory's normally lay their eggs on the intake tube and obviously when they hatch got sucked into the filter probably saved their life as the fish love baby Cory's even their parents love them. I always place the tubes,plants or rocks in another tank to hatch.

[Baccus]

I have raised cory fry previously by putting the eggs in a suspended net near the filter return in the adults tank, but now I tend to let the eggs and fry take their chances, turns out I almost always end up with at least 3-4 fry making it to juvi/ subadult with no interference from me.